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Re: Tips for beating Arsenal

in the first season playing as liverpool i draw with arsenal 0-0 three times. i always dropped a DM in and played with one up front. (normal formation was a 442).
as my team gets better i was getting more adventurous and nicking 1-0 wins in the last 10 minutes.

you have to make sure that your players have good concentration and dont let them get complacent. probably best to keep things relatively tight, as they do in real life when the big teams play each other, as arsneal have some very good players in terms of phsyical stats.

Re: Tips for beating Arsenal

Reload the game and repeatedly play it until the AI's predetermined result is overcome somehow by some sort of fluke or you happen to find the bizarre tactic that unhinges their ridiculously effective team. (Basically the same as when it 'decides' you have lost against the teams at the bottom of your division, whose players with awful morale and awful attributes
suddenly become brilliant against you at various points of the season no matter what you do.)

Or ... do as the others suggest above and hope to negate their effectiveness ... which in my experience is unlikely ;-). Weaker foot etc for their wingers may have an effect, also I tend to find changing offside traps and defensive line depth can make huge differences to matches. Oh, and pray a lot!

Re: Tips for beating Arsenal

Originally Posted by drambuie2

Reload the game and repeatedly play it until the AI's predetermined result is overcome somehow by some sort of fluke or you happen to find the bizarre tactic that unhinges their ridiculously effective team.

another poor loser?
if you put your striker in goal and your keepers up front i bet that would have an effect on the score line wouldn't it? so i'm pretty sure that picking the right players/formation/tactics would also have an effect on the score line.

Re: Tips for beating Arsenal

Re: Tips for beating Arsenal

Push their wingers onto weaker foot. Tight Mark Adebeyor/Bendtner with hard tackling. Always close down other forward also with hard tackling and put 3 in central midfield, this makes fabregas concentrate more defensively. Took me 5 seasons to work this out and havent lost to them since.